Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...butter brigade'] are now down to the lower levels reduced to dramatizing the wives of the more conspicuous official figures. Soon, if something does not happen, they will get to their sweethearts. In this critical situation the new Farm Board is a great help. It will bring to Washington a group of new men, each of whom will be available for a nice buttery article...
...brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...highly paid solicitors and premiums, Publisher Taylor discovered, bring circulation only-not "reader acceptance." And reader acceptance is what money-spending advertisers want. So Farm Life's advertising did not keep pace with its circulation...
...activities the B. of T. P. & P. M. claims the "high sphere of public morals." It helped to bring about Prohibition and with that work it has been chiefly identified since. It opposes "nudity, blasphemy, profanity and the treating of revolting subjects in the American theatre . . . commercialized gambling, prizefighting and the debauching of the young by publications which are indecent or which are clearly intended to excite lascivious feeling...
Nicholas Roerich, now 55, migrated to the U. S. eight years ago. In Russia he was painter, archaeologist, linguist, mystic of repute. He hoped that Beauty and Art would bring Oriental and Occidental cultures together and keep the earth forever at peace. The War and Russian turbulences balked him. So he went to the U. S. to find money, without which not even religion can spread. His reputation, which neither the U. S., British, German or French Who's Who yet record, went ahead of him to a few artists and mystics. They formed a circle which widened. Money...